Paramaribo is a district of
Suriname, encompassing the capital city of
Paramaribo
Paramaribo (; ; nicknamed Par'bo) is the capital and largest city of Suriname, located on the banks of the Suriname River in the Paramaribo District. Paramaribo has a population of roughly 241,000 people (2012 census), almost half of Suriname' ...
and the surrounding area.
Paramaribo district has a
population
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of 240,924, almost half the population of the entire country, and an
area
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of 182 km
2.
The area was first
colonised
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by the
British
British may refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies.
** Britishness, the British identity and common culture
* British English, ...
in the 17th century with the construction of
Fort Willoughby. This fort was later taken by the
Netherlands
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and renamed
Fort Zeelandia. The area, and the city of Paramaribo, switched between Dutch and British control until the
Treaty of Breda at the end of the
Second Anglo-Dutch War
The Second Anglo-Dutch War or the Second Dutch War (4 March 1665 – 31 July 1667; nl, Tweede Engelse Oorlog "Second English War") was a conflict between England and the Dutch Republic partly for control over the seas and trade routes, whe ...
ceded all of Suriname to the Dutch.
Resorts
Paramaribo is divided into 12 resorts (''ressorten''):
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Beekhuizen
Beekhuizen is a former sugarcane plantation and currently a resort in Suriname, located in the Paramaribo District. Its population at the 2012 census was 17,185.
The plantation was founded before 1700 by Benjamin Beeke. Around 1850, the Moravian ...
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Blauwgrond
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Centrum
(Latin for ''center'') may refer to:
Places In Greenland
* Nuuk Centrum, a district of Nuuk, Greenland
* Centrum Lake, Greenland In the Netherlands
* Amsterdam-Centrum, the inner-most borough of Amsterdam, Netherlands
* Rotterdam Centrum, a borou ...
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Flora
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Latour
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Livorno
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Munder
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Pontbuiten
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Rainville
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Tammenga
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Weg Naar Zee
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Welgelegen
Gallery
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References
Districts of Suriname
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